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Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday that the Obama administration would soon announce regulations that would allow banks to business with legal marijuana businesses. Financial institutions have been scared away
The three books under consideration here address different facets of our drug policy; one tells us how we got here, one explains (at least in part) why we're stuck here, and one offers up suggestions on where we go from here. With apologies to Dickens, it's as if we're seeing the ghosts of drug war past, present, and future.
Marijuana Policy Project has started a petition on Change.org to remove cannabis from the list of controlled substances.
Daily Beast's Nick Gillespie explains that ending the war on pot is Obama's opportunity to be remembered as President.
In a profile published online over the weekend in New Yorker magazine, President Barack Obama continued his softening towards marijuana legalization...
A Colorado dispensary has begun accepting bitcoin. Banking laws prevent dispensaries from accepting credit card payments, so they are otherwise cash-only.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz criticized Obama for not locking up Colorado marijuana users for violating federal law.
Weed Laws, an Android app, provides a listing of all 50 states, DC, “USA Federal”, and even Mexico that allows you to click on each and see what the deal is. It breaks down the level of offense and what you will face as a penalty for buying, possessing, growing, distributing, etc.
Last week, a banking meeting took place in Washington DC regarding regulations that currently exist that make it difficult for medical marijuana business to have normal access to banking functions.
Here's the top 10 items from NORML that shaped cannabis policy in 2013, from no association between lung cancer and smoking weed to Uruguay legalizing...
This data should inspire NIDA to examine the possibility that regulating marijuana like alcohol and cigarettes could be a more effective approach.
Last Thursday's marijuana banking meeting in Washington DC has industry leaders in Colorado hopeful, but anxious.
Just when we think we are turning a positive corner in the misconception of cannabis users, we get stories like this one out of the Pentagon that make us all do a collective facepalm.
Add this video to the long line of evidence that marijuana does have medical value and does help people in need. Jacqueline Patterson, a cerebral palsy...
Reason recounts the ATF's tactic of using mentally disabled teens to run sting operations.
In a great article on Forbes, Jacob Sullum explains why 97% of federal drug offenders plead guilty.
The name of HR 1523 basically explains it all: Respect State Marijuana Laws Act. In summary, it would amend the Controlled Substance Act to not include...
Here's the latest major medical marijuana news around the United States from the past week, as of November 26, 2013.
